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Bookcases For Sale
Style: Empire
Style: Rococo
Antique American Empire Style Mahogany 4 Section Stacking Barrister Bookcase
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique American Empire Style Mahogany 4 Section Stacking Barrister Bookcase. Item features carved paw feet, 4 glass doors, stacking form, very nice antique bookcase. Top 2 sections ...
Category
Early 1900s Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
French Empire Style Ebonized Bookcase
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This handsome Empire style open book shelf has a recent ebonized finish. This antique has the rounded column fronts of the empire style raised on paw feet. The interior is fitted wit...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Antique American Empire Carved Mahogany Bookcase in the Manner of R.J. Horner
Located in South Bend, IN
A beautiful antique American Empire or Victorian glass front bookcase with carved columns and lion paw feet
In the manner of R.J. Horner
USA, Circa 1890s
Carved mahogany, with mul...
Category
Late 19th Century American Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
19th Century French Empire Period Walnut Bookcase or Vitrine, Bronze, 15-in deep
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This early nineteenth century Empire period walnut bookcase features half columns that flank its glass doors. The columns are capped in bronze detailed with diamond and a Vitruvian s...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Early 19th century Scandinavian empire flame mahogany breakfront bookcase
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 19th century Scandinavian empire flame mahogany breakfront bookcase circa 1820.
Stunning bookcase of grand proportions veneered in golden flame mahogany. Bookcase comprises of 7 sections which screw together to. 3 sections to the base, 3 glazed sections and a cornice.
Central double door glazed...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
Early 19th Century French Empire Bookcase with Safe-Deposit-Box, Mahogany
Located in Greven, DE
Empire bookcase with safe deposit box
France
Mahogany
Empire around 1820
Dimensions: H x W x D: 227 x 154 x 49 cm
Description:
Impressive Empire ...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Louis Philippe Style Rococo Gold Gilt & Glass French Shelving Unit
Located in Bensalem, PA
Stunning rococo style Etagere with glass shelves in the manner of Louis Philippe
Category
1960s French Rococo Vintage Bookcases
Materials
Resin
19thc French Large Gilt & Wood Exotic Inlay Bookcase Empire- Burl Wood
Located in Opa Locka, FL
Stunning and Majestic 19thc French Empire Large Bookcase in Exotic Burl Amboyne with Exotic Wood Inlay, Artist Masterpiece! There is also gilt bronze elements, incredible full figura...
Category
1880s French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Wood
French 19th Century Empire Style Petite Bookcase
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A handsome petite Empire style bookcase from France, circa 1850. Crafted from warm and patinated mahogany with a more recently painted interior in Farrow & Ball Oval Room blue paint....
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Metal, Brass
19th century Empire Mahogany Bookcase
Located in Stockholm, SE
A very nice directoire/empire mahogany bookcase from around 1800 or early 19th century. The craftsmanship and quality of this piece is high and above what you normally see. It's maho...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Empire Bookcase
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An extraordinary antique empire bookcase in great condition completed and restored by our professional craftsmen team. This elegant piece is th...
Category
Early 1900s French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Antique French Empire Burl Wood Bibliotheque Bookcase Cabinet, Circa 1880s
Located in South Bend, IN
A beautiful antique French Empire knockdown bibliotheque bookcase cabinet
In the manner of Louis Majorelle
France, Circa 1880s
Gorgeous burl wood, with bronze mounts and trim.
Me...
Category
Late 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Bookcase - Walnut Open Front Cabinet
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Sumptuous French Empire style bookcase and cabinet in walnut
Hope the photos do this stunning piece some justice certainly more impressiv...
Category
1980s Empire Vintage Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Rare French Empire Mahogany Bookcase Library Jacob Desmalter
By François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Large and very unusual French Empire bookcase in beautifully figured mahogany veneer. Four glazed doors (original glass), interior with original shelves (two on each level allow an adjustment for larger...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century French Empire Period Ebonized Bookcase
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Great quality early 19th century ebonised French Empire period bookcase.
Having a moulded cornice above a pair of shaped glazed doors with original old glass and flanked by pilaster...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Wood
Pair of French Empire Bookcases
Located in Pomona, CA
A pair of French Empire bookcases / China cabinets. Ebonized side pillars with brass capitals. Gilt appliques to top and bottom front. Beveled g...
Category
1950s American Empire Vintage Bookcases
Materials
Wood
Pair of Late Empire Style Bookcases
Located in Roveredo In Piano, IT
Pair of Late Empire style bookcases. Small in size, they are composed of elements in solid walnut and others in folder and feature a wick shellac...
Category
19th Century European Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Wood
19th Century Walnut Pair of Bookcases Boiserie de Bibliothèque
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A rare pair of heliocodal French Directoire library bookcases in solid walnut. This type of bookcases is also known as 'boiseries de Bibliothèque' a...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
19th Century French Empire Walnut Bookcase
Located in Dallas, TX
A large French Empire bookcase, or buffet a deux corps in walnut with bronze mounts and glass doors, dating from the early 19th century.
This handsome piece has a nice old patina a...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Mid 20th Century Italian Rococo Olivewood and Burl Walnut Inlaid Bookcase
Located in Casteren, NL
A beautiful 20th century Rococo style bookcase with drawer on top. The whole piece is decorated with intricate inlaid patterns of flowers and leaves. The piece has a serpentine front...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Rococo Bookcases
Materials
Olive, Walnut, Burl
19th Century French Pinewood Book Shelf - Antique Cupboard
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An antique shelf cupboard in patinated Pinewood with top and lateral molding, in good condition. This early 19th Century furniture is perfect to display ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Pine
Large Rococo Style Painted Wood Dutch Cabinet with Glass Doors and Bombé Chest
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Dutch painted and carved wooden cabinet from the 19th century, with glass doors and bombé chest. Created in the Netherlands during the 19th century, this large Rococo style cabinet...
Category
19th Century Dutch Rococo Antique Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Wood
Exceptional 18thc Painted Venetian Secretary Desk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fantastic painted Italian secretary with original designs, paint and interior silk fabric.
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Bookcases
Materials
Lacquer, Wood
Antique Library Display Vitrine Cabinet Dutch 18th Century
Located in Antwerp, BE
Beautiful 18th century Dutch rococo period Book cabinet ,Vitrine in original patina? Cabinet for a plate display or bookcase with a antique original hand rolled glass front, with bea...
Category
Early 1800s English Rococo Antique Bookcases
Materials
Brass
C19th Pine Two Door French Cabinet/Bookcase with Glazed Astragal Detail
Located in London, GB
Handsome two door pine cupboard/ cabinet.
This is a lovely understated and useful cabinet which looks great in the flesh.
In one piece, it has a shaped cornice, glazing to the top ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Pine
Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Empire Library Bookcase
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine gilt bronze mounted mahogany Empire library bookcase.
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century French Mahogany and Ormolu Bookcase in the Empire Style
Located in London, GB
An exceptional and fine library breakfront bookcase by Antoine Krieger of Paris
In the Empire taste, this wonderful piece shows careful selection of matched flame mahogany veneers, contrasted by finely chiselled mercury gilded ormolu bronze mounts. The glazed, four door upper section is surmounted by ormolu laurel wreath victory garlands, and acanthus leaves to the cornice, the lower four blind doors having central caduceus mounts, emblematic of Mercury’s staff; the outer doors showing central Apollo masks, with acanthus leaves in a cruciform pattern; the cornered motifs being rosettes with conforming acanthus leaves; the pilaster columns are capped by stylised Tuscan capitals. The four oak lined drawers have Grecian Lyre backplates to the handles, and the locks are signed by the maker. The bookcase is elevated on toupie ‘cotton reel’ feet.
The very finest workmanship has gone into this piece, as evinced by the ethereal ‘gold dust’ ormolu mounts, with the crispest of ciselure, and the breathtaking quality of the mahogany veneers. This piece, originally conceived by Percier and Fontaine, adopting the decoration from the Antique, is signed by Antoine Krieger of Paris. Circa 1860
Percier and Fontaine published in 1812 the ‘bon ton’ design collection, ‘Recueil des Decorations Interieurs...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Ormolu
Bookcase Empire Mahogany Veneer Sessile Oak France Early 19th Century
Located in Milano, IT
French Empire bookcase, supported by feet, the front ones vase shaped. There are two panelled doors on the front, surmounted by the same amount of drawers in the under the top band, ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany, Oak
Uncommon Italian Library Showcase in Walnut with Side Windows Restored
Located in Buggiano, IT
Uncommon Original Italian antique showcase bookcase, from a villa in the center of Bologna.
The cabinet has internal shelves, a very important upper gable, and is completely removabl...
Category
1870s Italian Rococo Antique Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
French Empire Bookcase in Walnut
Located in Doylestown, PA
An early 19th century French provincial biblioteque in walnut, with upper case with adjustable shelves and wire-grill doors over a lower pair of paneled cabinet doors, circa 1810.
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
French Empire Period Bookcase
Located in Stockbridge, GA
French Empire Period bookcase. Early 19th century, the bookcase wears a beautiful flamed blond mahogany marquetry. Original old window glass.
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Germany Empire Wood Lacquered Wall Open Library, 1800s
Located in Roma, RM
Rare piece of furniture of German origin, from the early Empire, in excellent state of conservation, but to be restored, completely removable is a bookcase that will then have to be ...
Category
Early 1800s German Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Wood
19th Large Empire Style Mahogany Bookcase from French Chateau
Located in Marseille, FR
Large Empire style mahogany bookcase. There are zippers on all pediments. This library is adorned with gilded bronzes. Its dimensions are impressive. It comes from the Château de Faï...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of Antique Irish Chiffoniers
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare pair of traditional Irish chiffoniers or sideboards crafted with mahogany and celebrating several early 19th century styles, including empire and regency. Featuring high quality...
Category
19th Century Northern Irish Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
French Empire Style Mahogany Bookcase
Located in New York, NY
French Empire-style (19th Century) mahogany bookcase cabinet with bronze trim and 2 glass doors.
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Antique 1810 France Cast Iron Bookcase Shelves Flowers
Located in Munich, DE
Charming and elegant shelves made out of cast iron. The front of this slim piece of furniture and the struts are decorated with flowers.
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Iron
Large Empire Danish Glass Cabinet, Bookcase in Mahogany with Bronze Details
Located in Miami, FL
Elegant late Empire 4 doors glass and wood cabinet, bookcase in mahogany.
Pair of locking paned glass doors sitting atop pair of locking wood d...
Category
Late 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Empire Period Walnut Bibliotheque or Bookcase
Located in Birmingham, AL
A fine French Empire period bibliotheque handcrafted from select French walnut by skilled artisans from Lyon during the First Empire of Napoleon, circa early 1800s. The upper bookcas...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Bureau Bookcase Oak German Serpentine Front Original Brassware Working Locks
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A large, museum quality, 18th century, German, oak bureau bookcase with a serpentine front, original brassware and working locks
As fine an example of this model of German cabinet f...
Category
1740s German Rococo Antique Bookcases
Materials
Oak
Austrian 18th Century Empire Style Two Doors Larch Wood Armoire Wardrobe Cabinet
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Precious and original larch wood wardrobe, convertible into a bookcase, with two doors in the Austrian Empire style of the 18th century
The wardrobe, all in larch wood, is all origi...
Category
Late 18th Century Austrian Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Brass, Other
18th Century Scandanvian Rococo Giltwood and Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive 18th Century Rococo carved giltwood and Walnut bureau bookcase, having wonderful scrolling foliate and plume decoration to the cornice, a single mirror door with gi...
Category
Late 18th Century Scandinavian Rococo Antique Bookcases
Materials
Walnut, Giltwood
Antique Empire Style Secretary with Brass and Marble Top mahogany veneer
Located in Berlin, DE
Mahogany veneer on solid conifers. High-right corpus on chased bronze claw feet. Architecturally articulated front with library dummy and brass rim sockets. On both sides slightly co...
Category
20th Century French Empire Bookcases
Materials
Mahogany
French Empire 19th Century Walnut Bookcase-Cabinet
Located in Troy, NY
Small French Empire bookcase/cabinet with framed glazed sides, featuring a molded wooden elongated X on the inside, one wire-mesh-inset door, the corners e...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Russian Mahogany Secretary Bookcase
Located in New York, NY
Russian (18th Century) mahogany secretary bookcase with brass gallery pediment and trim with 2 front doors revealing 3 drawers and shelves ...
Category
Late 18th Century Russian Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Dutch Rococo Burl Walnut Bookcase Cabinet w glass doors Approx. 1770
Located in Kastrup, DK
A Dutch Rococo bookcase burl walnut cabinet, circa 1770s, in two parts.
The arched and curved cornice molding above two glazed doors, the lower section with two short drawers above ...
Category
1770s Dutch Rococo Antique Bookcases
Materials
Walnut, Glass
Neoclassical Mahogany Empire Bookcases
Located in New Haven, CT
This beautiful pair of mahogany Empire bookcases is decorated with gilt bronze mounts portraying armorial motifs, winged Nike figures, swans and garlands.
...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French Empire Mahogany and Bronze Bookcases
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Empire-style (19th Century) mahogany and bronze trimmed 2 plexiglass door bookcases. (PRICED AS Pair)
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Large Antique French Empire Vitrine or Display Cabinet, circa 1890
Located in Dallas, TX
Monumental 19th century French Empire black lacquered vitrine or display cabinet. The shaped bonnet with intricate doré bronze appointments above...
Category
Late 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Louis XV Provincial Walnut Secretaire
Located in New York, NY
Of unusually large scale; the upper section with arched cornice over a pair of wire-inset doors opening to fabric lined interior fitted with shelves; the lower section with a slant f...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Rococo Antique Bookcases
Materials
Walnut
Unusual Empire Style Bookcase, France, 19th Century
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Quirky and unusual Empire style breakfront bookcase, the wood painted with a faux bois trompe l'oeil, and decorated with plaster moldings painted gold....
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Early 19th Century Berlin Mahogany Armoire
Located in London, by appointment only
Germany, circa 1825.
A Berlin mahogany display cabinet having a stepped pediment inlaid with boxwood stringing above partially glazed doors divided...
Category
Early 19th Century German Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
French Empire Mahogany Bibliothéque Cabinet
Located in New York, NY
French Empire flame mahogany 2 door bibliothèque cabinet with with wire mesh and tapered square column sides having gilt bronze trim with classical heads.
Category
1820s French Empire Antique Bookcases
Empire Style Mahogany Bookcase Bibliotheque, French, Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
An exceptional French mahogany bookcase - bibliotheque with finely cast gilt bronze mounts and interior fitted with 4 shelves. Late 19th century with original key. Very Fine top qual...
Category
Late 19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Empire Bibliotheque
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This two-door French Empire bibliotheque is framed on either side by columns that go all the way to the feet. The top and bottom of the columns are...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Bookcases
Materials
Brass
Vintage, New and Antique Bookcases
As long as curious people have collected stories, we have needed a place to stow them away and preserve them. When auction houses and book dealers proliferated by the late 17th century, the bibliophile was born. And, of course, as with any treasured objects, a book lover’s volumes were suddenly worthy of a luxurious display — enter the bookcase. Americans of means during the 19th century took to amassing art as well as rare books, and antique bookcases of the era, rife with hand-carved decorative accents and architectural motifs, were ideal for displaying their handsome leather-bound wares.
Although our favorite titles may change over the years, the functionality and beauty of their home within our home is timeless. Whether you proudly shelve your books in regal mahogany or behind glass cabinet doors, a bookcase — or perhaps more than one — is essential to creating a cozy nook for any book lover. Even those who don’t covet the perfect home library can benefit from an attractive display case, as bookcases can easily double as charming étagères.
Contemporary and customizable options make it easier for you to find the perfect bookcase for your style and stacks. If you don’t wish to fill your storage piece so that your collection is snug within its confines, incorporate extra space to allow for additional displays and decorative objects. And by introducing a striking dark wood Art Deco bookcase or low-profile mid-century modern design by Paul McCobb into your living room, your signed first editions won’t be the only items making a statement.
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